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You are entirely wrong about my position, which is opposed to the Critical Text and in favour of what Dean John Burgon called "the Traditional Text.". My post was intended to demonstrate that where the Received Text differs from the Majority or Byzantine Text, it fails to be the 'Preserved'...

The 1689 Baptist Confession begins by saying, 'The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving Knowledge, Faith and Obedience.' That is outside the Bible. Should we not have any statements of what we believe because we might change our minds and 'reform'...

I am in general agreement with Anthony concerning his agreement with the 'Preserved Text,' but the question has to be asked, what exactly comprises this text. Romans 8:1 seems to be contained within in the majority of the extant Greek texts, including some early ones but the same cannot be said...

The translators of the KJV wrote in one of their prefaces: ".... We do not deny, nay, we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English set forth by men of our profession....... containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God" ['The Translators to the Reader'] I...

A very simple way of establishing the two natures of Christ is to look at Mark 4:35-41, the 'Stilling of the Storm.' The Lord Jesus comes on board the boat, and goes to sleep on a pillow. Why does He go to sleep? For the same reason anyone goes to sleep - He's tired, He's a Man; God does not...

OK, so how come Jerome got away with his Latin translation for 1,000 years when he admitted that it had mistakes in it? BTW, the Wycliffe translation was a rendering of Jerome's Latin for the simple reason that the Church of Rome had let slip the knowledge of Greek and Hebrew in the West. It...

Some years ago I set myself to write a history of what I have called "The People's Reformation" with the aim of dispelling the myth that the Reformation was the work of Henry VIII, who actually burned more Protestants during his rein than any other monarch! Due to my taking on a leadership role...

What went on in other countries is a matter for them. I am talking about England, where I live and I note that you have not disagreed with any of the points I have made about burnings etc.. I have been to Lindisfarne. The Gospels are beautifully writtten and wonderfully ornate. They are also...

For some hundreds of years the Roman Catholic church denied people the Scriptures in their own language. In 1400, a new law, De Haeretico Comburendo ('On the Burning of Heretics'), ordained for the first time in England, the burning of those regarded as heretics. in 1407, the 'Constitutions of...

The first Baptists sang only Psalms, but they put them to metre so that the congregations could sing them. Benjamin Keach was one of the first to introduce hymns to his congregation, and it brought quite a lot of criticism on his head. Other early baptists like Benjamin Beddome and Samuel...

First of all, there is only one God (Deut. 6:4; Mark 12:29 etc.). Second, Christ, 'being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage.....' (Phil. 2:6, NIV, 2011).

I think that one thing we need to remember is that there was no amplification in ancient times. The Temple was a pretty large place and it needed a load of musicians just to be heard. The other thing is that I don't know where you find the drums. King David seems to have laid down rules for...

You are, I'm sure, aware that the 'Lollard' Bible, promoted by John Wycliffe and probably undertaken by his colleague John Purvey, was a translation of the Latin Vulgate. The reason for that was that the orginal Greek and Hebrew documents were not available to them and the languages were almost...

I think it unlikely that a Christian slave in Rome or Corinth could tell his master, "Sorry, but I won't be bringing you your breakfast in bed this morning - I'm off to church!" He'd probably end up working down a salt mine or rowing a galley! The Puritans believed that doing works of mercy...

First of all, who are you to criticize Russell? He sat down with his Bible, asked for no help, and the Watchtower is what he came up with. He is the perfect exemplar of the person whose pride will not allow him to seek advice from those wiser and more experienced than himself. The Ethiopean...

Proverbs 11:14. 'Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.' Acts 8:30-31. 'So Philip ran up to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, "Do you understand what what you are reading?" And he said, "How can I unless someone...

As a young Christian (not in years lived but in years lived again), I picked up some cassettes and CDs featuring the preaching of Al Martin, who I think died a few years ago after a long ministry. He could be a bit 'shouty' but may the Lord bring us more preachers of his ilk! I have read that...

I shudder to think what Fox would think of the C of E today!

You are correct. The early General Baptists disappeared into either Quakerism or Unitarianism. They were revived around the end of the 18th Century by a group led by a chap called Dan Taylor who left Methodism after becoming convinced of Believers’ Baptism. He wrote of his predecessors...

Isaiah 53:10 came to mind straight away.